Marshall v. Russel

Judge Losan

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellee, who was the complainant below, asserts the superior right to the land, upon the following entry:

“May 11 ih, 1780 — John Floyd enters 600 acres, upon “treasury warrants, on the Ohio river, beginning at a hickory and a large ash, at the mouth of a small drain in the “upper end of the first bottom, 3 or 4 miles below a small “island, opposite to Kennedy’s cabin. The land lies about “40 miles below the mouth of Sciota; and runneth thence “S 37 poles to three lynns, growing from one root, at the foot “of a hill; N 70 W, 100 poles, to a…